Tag: business analytics

At this point, everyone understands the importance of and need for analytics.
But understanding the need and actually knowing how to go about leveraging analytics are two very different things.
Adding to the confusion is the ambiguity around the term itself.

Data is valuable: worldwide revenues for business analytics are expected to grow from $130 billion in 2016 to more than $203 billion in 2020.
But some companies remain unclear on the true capabilities offered by these analytics.

This week alone, analytics has been a hot topic. Call it what you want -- Business Intelligence, Sentiment Analysis or Social Reporting -- it can all tell you a lot about what’s going online, around your brand and your customers. Big Data isn’t just for information management.

Pentaho has released a new version of its analytics platform, Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5. Pentaho continues to focus on making it easier for non-technical users to find answers hidden in the piles of data modern organizations are collecting.

Leaving aside the massive plug for Watson, this year’s IBM Tech Trends report shows a couple of interesting figures, not least of which is the fact that Android -- and not iOS -- looks like it will be the preferred platform for developers over the next two years.

It used to be that forecasting was reserved for weather and stocks, but thanks to Cloud9’s new Sales Performance Suite, which features a new forecasting solution, users have the ability to actively managing their sales performance in an effort to accurately forecast sales. Sales Performance Management...Piece By Piece As

This week, SAP brings business analytics to GRC, researchers in Germany say they have identified a security hole in Android, Autonomy has bought the digital assets of Iron Mountain, VMWare has been on the acquisition trail and Compliance 360 releases Universal Assessments. SAP Releases EPM 10.0 Following major new releases

Although influenced by multiple Enterprise CMS passion attacks, in its heart, EMC (news, site ) has always been a data storage/management company. Having experience with managing large content/case/records assets in the enterprise is part of the attraction.

A little less than a year after IBM (news, site ) announced the launch of its Business Analytics and Optimization Services, a client-focused consultancy to provide business analytics, it has announced the opening of a global hub in China for the development of new predictive analytics software.

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